How has the Big Tech company assembled one of the largest funding models in history to sell AI chips? ft.trib.al/kr19iyi

Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic

Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending

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“On the Psychology of Military Incompetence,” by British psychologist Norman F. Dixon, has long been considered a must-read. But today it is more relevant than ever. 🔗

The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures

‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.

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New warnings that Russian operatives are targeting the emails of US nuclear scientists and defense contractors. 🔗 media.defense.gov/20...

Two backdoors – OctLurk and SilkLurk – have been used in attacks against government organizations primarily in Central Asia since January 2025.The loaders are customized for each victim. No attribution so far. Deep dive into the technical analysis:

OctLurk and SilkLurk: new Backdoors in Central Asia

Our experts discovered OctLurk and SilkLurk, backdoors operating primarily in memory, targeting Central Asia. They inject plugins to launch shells, scan networks, dump credentials, and keylogging.

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The Hyderabad Cyber Crime 🚔 Police have registered 2 cases against META's India head Arun Srinivas & operators of several Facebook, Instagram accounts over the alleged circulation of morphed & objectionable videos, images targeting PM Narendra Modi. 🔗

Youth protests: Meta India head named in FIRs over ‘objectionable’ posts about Modi in Telangana

Several Instagram and Facebook accounts were also booked in the Congress-ruled state.

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The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state? 🔗

Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?

The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state?

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“The Recruit” (2003) is a cautionary tale about joining CIA without reading 80 books about it first and thinking your himbo aura will protect you from Carlito Brigante’s brother (who joined up during the Reagan years to hunt communists in Latin America and terrorists in the North Africa)

Cat communism. Also my friend asked me if cats have more rights than women in Turkey and unfortunately the answer is yes

"The future is in your mind." Check out the official teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer. #SDCC

A Canadian national of #Chinese origin, an intern at #NATO’s strategic headquarters in #Belgium, SHAPE, in Mons has been remanded in custody on suspicion of #espionage for a third country, according to Belgian federal prosecutor’s office in Thursday. 🔗

NATO intern from Canada arrested on espionage charges in Belgium

The woman has been remanded in custody on suspicion of espionage for a third country and involvement in a criminal organisation.

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The Indian presence on BlueSky is limited, and there hasn't been talk of it here. But the scenes of violence and police brutality are distressing and it's important for people to know. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

Thousands of people again on the streets of Delhi demanding education reforms despite police violence on Monday

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After suspension of Metro 🚇 services, Government of India has now ordered a complete #shutdown ⚠️ of #MobileServices 📶 in #CentralDelhi, where 🪳 are protesting for Educational 📚 reforms & also seeking resignation of Education 👨‍🎓 minister. All telecos have complied 🫡 🔗 www.reuters.com/world/india/...

India blocks mobile internet in central Delhi, sources say

The Indian government has ordered telecom companies to disable ​mobile data services in central parts ‌of the capital Delhi, in and around the site of youth protests.

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Für den @spiegel.de haben wir uns die AfD-Kandidierenden in Sachsen-Anhalt genauer angeschaut. Und schon wieder gibt es Bezüge zur verbotenen #Artgemeinschaft. Außerdem: Ein Stasi-Hauptmann, Teilnehmer von Neonazi-Trauermärschen, Rocker-Verbindungen www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... (€)

(S+) Sachsen-Anhalt: So extrem sind die AfD-Kandidaten

Stasi-Verstrickungen, Drogenprobleme, Rassistenrituale in der Altmark – der SPIEGEL hat die Kandidaten durchleuchtet, mit denen die AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt an die Macht will. Hinter der Wahlkampffassade...

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A gambling empire controlled by a powerful Cambodian tycoon who was also the landlord of the very compound that was used for industrial-scale scamming & human trafficking operations, Reuters has found. I believe this is part of a larger syndicate. 🔗 www.reuters.com/grap...

Canadian 🇨🇦 forensic company Magnet suing a former employee for disclosing an Apple zero-day the company was hoarding & exploiting to crack iPhones "the public disclosure alerted Apple to the flaw & allowed it to be fixed, reducing its value..." Lol 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/ne...

The bombs were hidden in divers’ cylinders and lowered into the Baltic Sea. A new book explains how the resulting explosions shook Europe’s economy and the Western alliance bit.ly/44xqeRl Photo: Getty Images

It's unusual for former FSB employees to be arrested outside of Russia (and extradited) these days. But what's also unusual about Denis Obrezko -- charged with the "Laundry Bear" hack of computers in the U.S. and Europe-- is how careless he appeared to have been online. www.rferl.org/a/russia-hac...

An Alleged Russian FSB Hacker Traveled To Thailand. Now He's Facing 10 Years In A US Prison.

What’s unusual about the arrest of Denis Obrezko is how relatively rare it is for Russian hackers to be detained abroad these days. What’s also unusual: Obrezko used to work for Russia’s FSB. And it a...

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The integrity of US elections is not in danger because of foreign interference. But because of President Trump’s interference. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system

US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms

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Codename “Morgan”: Forbidden Stories & its partners retrace Morocco’s acquisition of the infamous Pegasus spyware, used against French ministers, sold by Israeli NSO Group. A military grade spyware deal involving Israel & the UAE governments.. 🔗

Codename “Morgan”: A look back at Morocco’s acquisition of Pegasus, involving Israel and the United Arab Emirates

From product demonstrations at a secret villa in Rabat to training sessions at NSO’s Herzliya headquarters, Forbidden Stories and its partners retrace the early stages of Morocco’s use of Pegasus.

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This paragraph … www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

The shim is a small helper program that Microsoft signs so Linux distributions can securely boot their own loaders. ESET researchers found 11 old forgotten shims still carrying valid Microsoft signatures from years ago. 1/3

A new Mac malware called CrashStealer used an official Apple notarized app to steal passwords and crypto behind a fake system prompt. 🔗

NEW: The Iranian government abused well-known flaws in the global telecoms infrastructure — specifically SS7 — to locate U.S. military personnel in the Middle East at the beginning of the war. 🔗

Iran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunch

The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.

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Investigators have reportedly concluded that Russian hackers were behind the damaging, disrupting, and costly cyberattack against Jaguar Land Rover last year. 🔗

Russian hackers were behind $2.5B hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report | TechCrunch

The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one of the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last few years.

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Chaos 🤯 inside CIA: A survey of CIA analysts reveals concern that political pressure is undermining intelligence work during the Trump administration, Shane Harris reports. 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/... 1/7

Chaos 🤯 inside CIA: A survey of CIA analysts reveals concern that political pressure is undermining intelligence work during the Trump administration, Shane Harris reports. 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/... 1/7

The #datacenter boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation. www.nytimes.com/2026...

The one & only #ChrisWysopal, one of the early pioneer in cybersecurity (#VulnerabilityResearch) warns that just buying security tools without fixing core vulnerabilities in our software would only creates activity, not risk reduction. #LOpht 🔗

Why Security Tools Fail to Reduce Risk: The Cybersecurity Shelfware Problem

Chris Wysopal warns that buying security tools without fixing vulnerabilities creates activity, not risk reduction.

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At #OpenSourceSummit2026 India, Linux creator #LinusTorvalds and his friend #DirkHohndel discussed the current state of #Linux and where it's headed. 🔗

'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

At the Open Source Summit in Mumbai, Torvalds discusses the pain and power of AI in the kernel, and why Linux no longer supports 'museum' technology.

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